Recent content by Gamma1214

Interesting. I wonder how that would look if I left the inwale short & wrapped the outwale as I've been... might try it that way when finishing the "Extra Trippy Merlin... (wood strip... canoe build)" Just kidding, Glenn. Edit as you wish... whatever grabs your search engine.

Thanks for clarifying. The trailer left me thinking the one guy is extremely arrogant and not someone I'd want to be around or even listen to in a film. Nice to know the personality might be overblown to poke fun at him. I'm left to wonder if some familiarity with the area helps find the humor...

You cut these off the boat, epoxy them together and then fit them as one piece? I could do that but then fitting both ends to have nice, tight joints at the ends would become much more difficult. I usually have to make the last cut (where I'm running the pull saw between both sides) 2-3 times...

They were not installed today. I like Boatman's idea of an insert. I've seen my buddy Dewey (my woodworker for the pieces that need machined) add "cookies" to dado'd joints and something like that would probably work. As it is, I'm going to have a gunsmith friend make up a metal jig so that I...

Thanks Mem. I don't really want to buck every bit of conventional building wisdom but I do try to understand the physics involved and it does seem that full-length glue-up on both sides would make it difficult to get enough pressure on the weak point to cause damage. (though I've been wrong...

Hmm... I'm epoxying the full length of the hull and screwing through the hull into the inner gunwale every 18 inches or so. I also epoxy the outer in place (no screws) making sure that I overlap the inner scarfs by several feet. I know the gunwales are structural but (glued, screwed and...

Awesome TR. Looks like some nice country and well worth the trip.

Well, Sunday came & went (maybe I meant next Sunday) but I'm back to making some progress. I got the inner gunwales fitted this afternoon & I probably do them a little differently than most. First, I loosely clamp them near the center of the hull so that they overlap (I've never tried...

Barn Swallows are great in lots of ways. Urban (OK, rural) legend is that lightning will not strike a building with swallows.

Beautiful job! Do you have a final weight?

Especially when camping & canoeing, I can appreciate caveman-like moments. I'm sure my first was a huge aluminum tandem in the Scouts. A few trips on local rivers and I was a lifeguard teaching paddling (row boats and canoes) at the summer camp. Didn't have a clue what I was doing but we...

I always get a few of those (sometimes more than a few). I like how that cleaned up.

I was surprised to see the Steel River loop on it & it seems pretty accurate except that it is missing the access from Eaglecrest lake. Personally, I'd much rather do the loop from Eaglecrest than paddle the length of Santoy. I played with it a bit to see if I could add the Eaglecrest access...

Wow, that looks great and the weight is awesome. Nicely done.

I think Scamp (Boler?) is still making trailers. I looked at a couple for my daughter before her career plans changed and they seem to hold their value pretty well. My first trip to Canada, I ran across a family of 5 towing one behind a tiny car. Looked like a pretty efficient set-up.